Bernard’s practice focuses on the financing and development of electric-generating facilities, with a focus on renewable energy.

Bernard advisors lenders, utilities and investors on the financing, development, acquisition and disposition of energy-generating assets around the United States, including those involving both renewable and conventional technologies. He advises on a variety of financing structures, including tax equity financings.

Relevant Experience

• Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of wind projects located in Kern County, California and Riverside County, California.
• Represented tax equity investor in connection with the financing of a portfolio of wind repowering projects located in Oklahoma, North Dakota and Colorado.
• Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of wind and solar projects located in Texas and California.
• Represented financial institution in connection with its tax equity financing of a portfolio of repowered wind and solar projects located in Florida, Maine, Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas and Texas.
• Represented the purchaser in connection with the acquisition of a wind project located in Texas.
• Represented a utility company in connection with its financing of a wind project located in Texas.

• Represented client in connection with transition to ownership and preparation for sale of a gas-fired power project in Arizona.
• Represented a toll road concessionaire in the re-negotiation of its concession agreement with a state department of transportation.
• Represented the preferred proposer on its bid to acquire the $225 million long-term lease and concession of the University of Idaho Utility System.

Bar Admissions

Education
JD, Georgetown University Law Center, 2019BS, Thomas Edison State University, 2015